BRIEFING - ASIA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - DEC 3, 1999
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Dec 03, 1999 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- An executive briefing on information technology for Dec 3, 1999, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities.
SHANGHAI'S IT INDUSTRY OUTPUT INCREASES 23.5% OVER 1998 SHANGHAI- Shanghai's IT product manufacturing industry has experienced synchronous improvements in output and economic efficiency since the beginning of this year, thanks to the sustained development of new products.
Statistics show that it realized 41.53 billion yuan (US$5.02 billion) in output value in the first three quarters of this year, posting a 23.5% year-over-year rise, which doubled the average growth of the municipality's industry.
COMPAQ INDONESIA 3Q99 SALES UP 136% YEAR-ON-YEAR JAKARTA- The sales of PT Compaq Computer Indonesia in the third quarter of 1999 rose by 136 per cent year-on-year.
Between January and September, Compaq sales rose 146 per cent in Indonesia.
AUSTRALIAN WINE COMPANIES FORM INTERNET RETAIL ALLIANCE BRISBANE- Australia's Wine Planet Holdings Ltd, through subsidiary Ewines Pty Ltd, has entered into an agreement with E Com Industries Pty Ltd to form an Internet business alliance.
E Com Industries Pty Limited operates the Giftvouchers.com internet site which provides on line gift vouchers redeemable with participating retailers.
INDONESIA'S E-COMMERCE BUSINESS WORTH US$50 MLN A MONTH JAKARTA- E-Commerce transactions in Indonesia amounted to only US$50 million a month, president of PT Microsoft Indonesia Richard Kartawijaya said Thursday.
"And the consumers are companies, not ordinary people," he added. DAI NIPPON PRINTING, TOSHIBA JOIN FORCES IN PHOTOMASKS
TOKYO- Dai Nippon Printing Co. (TSE:7912) and Toshiba Corp. (TSE:6502) announced Thursday an agreement to develop and manufacture photomasks for semiconductors through a joint venture to be set up in March 2000.
Toshiba is a leader in efforts to develop technology that can create ever-finer circuit details on semiconductors. Dai Nippon is the world's largest producer of photomasks -- plates containing the circuit patterns that are exposed on a silicon wafer in integrated circuit production. By pooling their resources, the companies hope to become more competitive in the field.
JAPAN'S MITSUKOSHI TO USE EDI FOR TRADE WITH 6 COSMETICS COs TOKYO- Mitsukoshi Ltd. (TSE:8231) will begin in spring using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) at all its stores throughout Japan for orders and deliveries of six major cosmetics companies, company sources said Thursday.
The system, which complies with international standards, enables data to be exchanged between a number of business partners and allows for products to be tracked electronically during various stages of distribution.
SUN, INDIA'S APTECH ANNOUNCE E-COMMERCE PARTNERSHIP BANGALORE- Information Technology Leaders, APTECH Limited and Sun Microystems have announced their alliance to offer complete E-Business Solutions to the Banking and Insurance sectors in India and abroad.
Bhaskar Pramanik, Managing Director, Sun Microsystems India Pvt.Ltd. told reporters that the company would partner with Aptech to provide end to end e-commerce solutions to the finance, insurance and retail industries in India.
MALAYSIAN CO PETRA BUYS 60% STAKE IN MERCOSUR KUALA LUMPUR- Malaysia's Petra Group, jointly controlled by Vinod Sekhar and Tunku Imran Jaafar, has taken a 60 percent stake of US-based Mercosur Industries Inc, a venture capital and seed development company focusing on IT, it was announced Thursday.
Texas-based Mercosur owns BCIN.net, a low cost fully integrated ISP providing domestic and international communications.
MALAYSIA NOT INTERESTED IN ITA2 : TRADE MINISTRY OFFICIAL SEATTLE, Dec 2 Asia Pulse - Malaysia may not participate in the 2nd Information Technology Agreement or ITA2 proposed by the United States because it does not appear to benefit country's industries, said Datuk Asmat Kamaluddin, secretary-general of the international trade and industry ministry.
He said Malaysia took part in the first ITA because it included "a lot of our exports but ITA2 does not seem to benefit us."
CHINA'S LEGEND BUILDS NEW COMPUTER PLANT IN BEIJING PARK BEIJING, Dec 2 Asia Pulse - China's leading computer maker Legend has started constructing a new computer production base -- Legend Computer Mansion -- in the Beijing Zhongguancun Sci-Tech Park.
With a planned investment of 280 million yuan, the project is scheduled for completion at the end of next year, with a designed annual production capacity of two million Legend computers.
COMPAQ TO IMPLEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE FOR BUSINESS FOCUS GROUP KUALA LUMPUR- Compaq Computer Corporation Malaysia Sdn Bhd will implement the electronic infrastructure that will form the Business Focus group's eBusiness backbone.
In a statement Thursday, Compaq said it had signed a Strategic Alliance Agreement with BFit Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Business Focus group, for the purpose.
S KOREA'S SAMSUNG TO CARRY OUT PROJECTS WITH N KOREA SEOUL- Samsung Electronics (KSE:05930) said Thursday that it has signed a detailed economic co-operation contract with North Korea to advance software joint development project and manufacturing on consignment of electronic products.
The software joint development project, in which Samsung will invest around US$1 million, will focus on five softwares, development of a unified wordprocessor for both Koreas, software dealing with Chinese characters, game software, document summarising software and graphic library software.
S KOREA ELECTRONICS EXPORTS SEEN TO RISE 18.7% NEXT YR SEOUL - Korea's exports of electronic products next year are expected to grow 18.7 percent, led by liquid crystal displays, computers, semiconductor chips and other high value-added products, the Electronics Industries Association of Korea said Thursday.
The electronics industry is expected to post 86 trillion won (US$74.2 billion) in output, up 10 percent from this year, and exports are forecast to reach US$61.1 billion, up 18.7 percent.
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